The next edition of the Tanztage Berlin will take place under the new artistic direction of Mateusz Szymanówka. The festival offers emerging choreographers based in Berlin a framework to showcase their new and existing productions.

It's show time! In the remote performance NO LIMIT, audience and performers will meet in a webinar format to take a closer look at the concept of norm: To which norm do we actually want to return after this "exceptional situation"? And do we want to continue glorifying strategies of self-exploitation in the norm of the future?

Part of the DAYS OF SHINING ACTION is an online edition of our regular series KiezKantine. Under the motto Kieze gegen rechts, from May 04 - 08, we will stream five interviews right into your home. The Podcast presents five projects and initiatives from Berlin that are actively engaged in civil society and show how to stand up against discrimination and for an open society on a small scale.

Unfortunately, we must conclude our analogue season, but from podcasts to performance webinars, we will provide you with some stuff from the Off and we'll keep you up to date on what's going on in the coming weeks. Stay tuned and don't forget us!

It's show time! In the remote performance NO LIMIT, audience and performers will meet in a webinar format to take a closer look at the concept of norm: To which norm do we actually want to return after this "exceptional situation"? And do we want to continue glorifying strategies of self-exploitation in the norm of the future?

Müller/Rinnert merge the music of the revue Im Weißen Rössl with a New York expat-adaptation by Jimmy Berg: An audio play about Jewish-German refugee experience, lost entertainment history and the dazzling (re)discovery of Heimat.

It's show time! In the remote performance NO LIMIT, audience and performers will meet in a webinar format to take a closer look at the concept of norm: To which norm do we actually want to return after this "exceptional situation"? And do we want to continue glorifying strategies of self-exploitation in the norm of the future?

Kirsten Maar + Jenny Schrödl
Gender Talk

Discussion

2019 June 22 | 21.00
Kantine

Auf Englisch - In English

Based on smaller presentations, films, musical contributions and texts, experts from performance, dance, music, theatre, art and science invite you to an informal and open conversation. Open for discussion are their ideas and their access to current gender themes between questions of masquerade, masculinity, #MeToo, #thefutureisfemale, queer objects and much more.

Sheena McGrandles

shaping desire and sensation

In positioning drag as a practice of shaping desire and sensation, Sheena revisits some old looks and reframes them for the nights salon. Dealing with hard and soft matter, struts, warm ups and fast dressing, they will touch and tease out other desiring sensual subjects in us all.

Johannes Müller

Reading Salome and queer opera

What is intriguing about the relation of opera/music theater and gender? Which questions emerge with working on opera/music theater? or are even answered? On the one hand there is all the frumpy stuff in opera, on the other there are moments, in which opera is quite modern in hindsight to questions of gender or race.

EIKE WITTROCK

QUEER TIMES

In the centennial of the opening of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin, many cultural institutions are 'going queer', so I guess we're living in really queer times. But what does it mean for time to become queer? Which other temporalities of performance become possible, both in terms of programming as well as in relationsship to history?

Jen Rosenblit

I'm Gonna Need Another One

I'm gonna need anotherone is a monologue which speaks about the endless, the things we do not yet know, a constant tasting, a re-tasting, a going-back-in, a short pause. Jen Rosenblit will linguistically track the disappearance or fleeting temporality of the body, or maybe as close as we can come to meaning - where absence is as confusing, expansive and immeasurable as the constructs of genders as we think we know them. Making sense is something she is interested in doing but not bound to. Consider that a table could be a person, a thing could be a memory and a fantasy could manifest in the form of wanting more chairs. She never means just one thing.

Hosts: Kirsten MAAR and Jenny Schrödl

Kirsten Maar is an assistant professor of dance studies at Freie Universität Berlin since 2018 and a dramaturge. Her research focuses on choreographic processes in the 20th century, the dissolution of boundaries between choreography, architecture, and the visual arts, as well as the change of discourses on gender, ethnicity and class since the 1960s.

Jenny Schrödl is an assistant professor of theatre studies with a focus on contemporary theatre and performance art at the FU Berlin since January 2015. Her research focuses on Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art, Theory and Aesthetics of the Voice, Gender/Queer Theory and Performance as well as on duo-performances and artist couples.